Sunday, March 20, 2011

Weekday Dinner Ideas

Time to get moving on the rest of the week's dinner ideas. I'm excited that the new sale at Whole Foods includes organic eggplant for $1.99 a pound, as I've been waiting for a good organic eggplant to try eggplant Bolognese from Cooking Light, so that will be on deck for tomorrow. The ground meat sales at both Sprouts and Sunflower can assist with the ground beef called for, and Sprouts has a fantastic price this week on the 28 ounce can of tomatoes it needs, with Muir Glen Organics at just $1.69. Again, remember the organic leaf lettuce and bags of organic baby carrots that are just 99 cents each at Sunflower for the side salad.

Then of course we have something big made over the weekend that will do double duty as a midweek reheat, and in Tuesday's case, it will be the sweet potato and sausage soup from Bon Appetit. Note comments just above regarding side salad deals.

For Wednesday, we still haven't had anything based on rice, so with beef stew meat $3.99 a pound and organic yams 99 cents a pound at Sunflower, it will be stir-fried beef, broccoli, and yams from Bon Appetit, served over brown rice.

Finally, for a simple dish to round out our midweek cooking, since Sunflower has their own turkey meatloaf of sale for $2.99 through Wednesday (that's an option right there), I'm hoping to also find their yummy turkey meatballs, which freeze nicely for midweek cooking. These would be great on pasta, first browning the meatballs then simmering them in the Muir Glen Organic pasta sauce that's only $2.50 for a jar at Sprouts through Wednesday (stock up!).

And that will get us through to next Friday's planning.

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